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The Rise of Silas Lapham
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William Dean Howells |
The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortu… |
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Emma's journal
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Marissa Moss |
From 1774 to 1776, Emma describes in her journal her stay in Boston, where she witnesses the British blockade and spies for the American militia. Features hand-printed text, drawings, and marginal no… |
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Prank
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Kathryn Lasky |
A teenage girl strives to escape from her dead-end existence in a tough neighborhood of East Boston and from her violent, quarrelsome family. |
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Mortal fear
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Robin Cook |
When an eminent biomolecular geneticist dies violently before his eyes, a doctor must use more than his medical knowledge to explain what he comes to believe is murder, and to stop a scientific break… |
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Shrink rap
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Robert B. Parker |
Boston P.I. Sunny Randall goes on the road to protect a bestselling author -- and uncovers a world of dark secrets. |
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Chance
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Robert B. Parker |
A mob bagman disappears and his father-in-law hires Spencer and Hawk to find him. |
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Family honor
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Robert B. Parker |
PI Sunny Randall of Boston searches for a rich man's daughter who ran away to be a prostitute. After finding her Sunny must guard her because the girl is on a hit list. She witnessed a conspiracy inv… |
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Potshot
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Robert B. Parker |
"Boston P.I. Spenser returns - heading west to the rich man's haven of Potshot, Arizona, a former mining town reborn as a paradise for Los Angeles millionaires looking for a place to escape the press… |
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Mortal stakes
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Robert B. Parker |
Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life. Is Marty throwing … |
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The Surgeon (Jane Rizzoli, Book 1)
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Tess Gerritsen,Tess Gerritsen |
If it's gripping, it's Gerritsen. The terrifying first Jane Rizzoli bestseller.In Boston, there's a killer on the loose. A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs… |
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Vanish (Jane Rizzoli, Book 5)
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Tess Gerritsen |
If it's gripping, it's Gerritsen. A chilling Rizzoli and Isles thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.The beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. But wh… |
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Hot Stuff
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Janet Evanovich |
If you like hot men, hot action and hot attraction you're going to love this HOT new series! HOT STUFF introduces Cate Madigan, a Boston native from a large and crazy Irish family. Cate has far too m… |
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I have an aunt on Marlborough Street
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Kathryn Lasky |
Phoebe describes her many visits during the year to her Aunt Phoebe, who lives in an old part of Boston where the sidewalks are made of brick and the houses touch shoulders. |
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Spiral Hunt
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Margaret Ronald |
Some people have the Sight. Genevieve Scelan has the Scent.They call her "Hound," and with her unique supernatural sense Evie can track nearly anything — lost keys, vanished family heirlooms . . . ev… |
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Keeping the Dead
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Tess Gerritsen |
Confront your darkest fears in Tess Gerritsen's heart-stopping new thriller featuring Detective Jane Rizzoli and Dr Maura Isles. She's Pilgrim Hospital's most unusual patient, and on this Saturday ni… |
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Girl Missing
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Tess Gerritsen |
THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY. She's young. She's beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a notebook clutched in one stif… |
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Strangled
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Brian McGrory |
When a series of murders reopens the decades-old case of the Boston Strangler, journalist Jack Flynn begins receiving letters from the murderer and finds himself caught between the killer's threats a… |
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Maggie and Oliver, or, A bone of one's own
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Valerie Hobbs |
A dog whose beloved owner has died and an orphaned ten-year-old girl find each other while enduring poverty and homelessness in early-twentieth-century Boston. |
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Broadway baby
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Alan Shapiro |
"As a little girl growing up in Boston, Miriam Bluestein fantasized about a life lived on stage, specifically in a musical. Get married, have a family--sure, maybe she'd do those things, too, but fir… |
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Undertow
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Sydney Bauer |
When noted attorney Rayna Martin is charged with murder after her daughter's friend, Christina Haynes, drowns in a tragic accident and Christina's father, a powerful senator, wants vengeance ; blackm… |
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